Hamburg was mainly about the following:
1. Visiting Charley
2. ESSEN!
3. and HARBOUR EXPLORATION!
The first night was pretty surreal, having realized that you’re on an escapade with a friend from back home in another country! Add to this was the fact that 2 Filipinos, a Peruvian and a German were going around Reeperbahn (Hamburg’s red light district) with the goal of staying awake to catch the famed 5am Hamburg Fisch Markt. Thus, we partied in an Irish bar, gorged on Turkish food, hung out in a bar with really ugly pole dancers and sang our guts out in a Filipino Karaoke joint where the Germans were hogging the microphone and singing so badly out of tune. By the time we got to the Fisch market surviving 6 hours of “partying”, the Peruvian Johnny was down and drunk and fast asleep, the two Filipinos still chatty, (with one with aching feet and a runner’s knee—that’s me!) and the German Flori, bored but happily drinking his hot chocolate and eating his Berliner.
Partying Party
Turkish Delight
Poledancers!
Sexy Cakes for Sale!
5am: Derranged and SleepySunday was spent walking around Hamburg, seeing the Rathaus,; going up the burned Church and getting a real nice view of Hamburg; see real swans! (hahaha) and eating .70e ice cream and once again gorging on delicious German-Turkish food! That night we also went down the hundred year old Elbe Tunnel and got a glimpse of Charley’s luxury liner.
Flori, Is that you?
Yay!
Elbe Tunnel ManThe next day, we took a river cruise down the Speicherstadt. Hamburg has the biggest cargo storage in the world! Various cargo get stored in these warehouses as old as the port itself, keeping an even 12 degree temperature for food, carpets and other items of trade from all over the world.
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Speicherstadt
Hording Place of World TradeThe tour of the Speicherstadt also takes you through the Elbe river where you get to see cargo ships and huge containers unloading as well as huge ships dry docked (like a car going into repair), their bottoms repainted and the ships getting an overhaul in preparation for the next trip overseas.
We met up with Charley afterwards for some ice cream (of course!) and kite flying. (Charley has the actual kiteflying pics. hahaha)
Macho Kite Builder
Kite Flying DayCharley got her first taste of authentic German food. We had fish and some leberkase and Hamburg’s beer which unfortunately rates even below Kölsch on my review of good German drinks.
Fisch!!! Lecker!!!
Leberkase!
Satisfied Dinner Guests
The Runaway Design Team
Sexy FlotrinkianRounds of drinks with Derek wrapped up our days in Hamburg and it’s always a nice couple of hours relaxing and laughing in a warm house with great breakfast! Thanks for having us over Derek!
The Host with the Most!And then, we said “See you later” to cheeky Charley who's off on her world adventure tour, and then we were off back to Bonn, back to work and back to the German daily grind and back to the usual Flotrinkian adventures, and now to more serious ones like Diplomaarbeiten and the process of filmmaking and creating the great Flotrinkian empire!
2 comments:
Cool! What was Charley doing in Germany?
She is a videographer and photographer working for an american luxury liner that tours the carribean and europe. they drydocked in hamburg for 3 weeks! her visa doesn't allow her to leave the city where they're parked so we had to come to her.Soooper fun! She was so aliw with everything!
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